Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Episode 7- The Life & Death of Jeremy Bentham

WOW.

RIP Abadon. you scared me at first, but now I find you sexy. sucks you are dead but you probably really aren't.

So- first & foremost theory- The new people on the crashed plane (Caesar, etc) are the new Losties, Oceanic 6 are the "others"- like Ethan Rom was a plant and Sawyer, Juliette, etc are the Others but the hostiles.

Onward!

- There was a Life Magazine from the '50s in the opening shot. Jeremy's passport said he was born in 1948 but Locke was really born in 1956. Helen was born in 1957. And Widmore remembers meeting Locke when he was 17 in 1954 and said he looks just the same- so if Widmore wasn't Widmore (and a regular person) would he think Locke doesn't age- we all think Alpert doesn't age but are we all time travelling when we see Alpert? So seeing him in 1954 or 2005 would make him the same age. Also, Widmore says to Locke they are about the same age- and they look alike.

- When Ben landed in Tunisia there were no cameras but there were when Ben landed.

- The pilot left with some woman- is this Sun? is she looking for Jin?

- The boats look just like the ones Sawyer, Kate & Carl used to escape the Others camp as well as when Juliette, Sawyer, used when they were all time travelling when they saw Rousseau's frenchies. There were 3 of them.. and then 2.. and it was said the pilot took them.


- Locke eating the mango was very similar to when he ate the orange in the pilot episode & freaked Kate out by doing the Godfather impersonation.

- Why did Widmore and Abadon offer Locke to get in contact with anyone from his past. Isn't he supposed to be dead from Oceanic Flight 815? And they knew the only person he would want to get in touch with that wouldn't know anything (besides Walt) is Helen. I think they faked her death so he wouldn't be curious to look for her.

- Locke always has leg issues- shot in leg, cuts in leg, hatch doors fell on his leg- and he was paralyzed off the island.

- The Dr that treated Locke in the infirmary looked familiar like the guy who owned the restaurant who accused Sayid of torturing his wife. Also- was Nadia in the infirmary?

- Abadon approached Locke in this infirmary & his original rehab center.

- A war coming- wrong side will win. Does Ben win because he kills Penny & gets away with it by getting back to the island?

- Sayid was building schools in Santo Domingo. (escuela de la isla). was it forgiveness for his sins? Also he was married to Nadia for 9 months- if Nadia was in the infirmary and is now dead did Locke time travel off the island? (9 months is interesting.. goes back to the fertility theme)

- Walt was not surprised to see Ben. He has visions of the future. He says they wanted to hurt you- wonder who that is. Ben? Why isn't Locke looking to bring Walt back- Walt is special and Locke knows it. Maybe like Alpert, the time will come for Walt when he is ready. Also, there were yellow license plates & old taxis circa the '90s.

- Locke & Widmore's eyes were 1 black, 1 light when talking to each other.. Locke had 1 black, 1 light when talking about Helen.

- Ben left and returned to off the island in 2005, Locke it's 2007 (according to his passport), Helen died in 2006.

- Like Sayid, Kate, Jack, Sawyer they've all got a soft spot for love despite Jack & Kate saying locke had nothing.

- Once Ben realizes how important Locke is- and how powerful (either because he knew of Hawkins or he was trying to get the info) he killed him. Mainly because the island won't let you kill yourself so he had to help sacrifice Locke. Island wouldn't let Michael & Jack die either.

- Also, Locked wore a hood like a Jedi. Is Ben Darth Vader and really evil? If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine. And Tunisia looks like Tattoine!

- I don't think Locke is really dead.. he went on a "walkabout" as Abadon recommended. Walkabout amongst the living & dead. Locke is dead- off the island but not on- as is Christian. And Hurley sees Eko, Ana Lucia, Charly. it's a threshold btwn living & dead.

- There's a tree that looks like the Joshua Tree- seen at Santa Rosa Medical Center, on the island & where Kate and her high school boyfriend dig up the time capsule.

- Ben is on the "injured" list- he was bloody prior to getting on the island. The survivors disappeared but Ben didn't.. is this the island's way of saying not to come back to the island?

- Westerfield Hotel-
The camera focused on the sign for a few seconds, I'm thinking there must be an anagram somewhere in there. Some letters were illuminated and some were burnt out.

Illuminated: W E S T R F I E L H O T L
Burnt out: E D E
All : W E S T E R F I E L D H O T E L

Using all the letters I came up with "threshold" which seems like it might tie into the themes of where the series is at right now, but that leaves out the letters " W E I E L E F T " or HERE WE LEFT LOST DI
WE LEFT DI LOST HERE
WE LEFT DI HERE LOST
We Left Lost
Wheel Rift Lost

DI= Dharma Initiative
The name Eloise is also in there.
Also- google Westerfield and there's a Swan Westerfield Hotel in the UK.

ok. that's all.. tired, tiny stinks & gonna watch top chef season finale. enjoy!
xoxo

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Episode 6-316

First.. welcome Tracey (sn: sonovabitch) who gets the medal for watching all five seasons in record time (as far as i know!) She started Jan 1 and ended Feb. 15. Congrats & welcome to SCHLOST my friend!

AMAZING episode.. cannot wait til next week!

- is jack wearing same suit as when the plane crashed? producers said it all goes back to the pilot.

-kate says are we back.. jack says i'm back.

- the pendulum.. how thrilling, which is The Lamppost. The Lamppost from Chronicles of Narnia (thanks Eric!) written by CS Lewis - charlotte.. also I think the lamppost is one of the dharma symbols. Also references the lantern that was destroyed in Jacob's cabin which Ben later hangs up (after it was destroyed) as working and Christian uses when talking to Locke.

The Lamp-post is a major landmark in the country of Narnia, located in the northern unpopulated area, which was named Lantern Waste after it. It is a London streetlamp standing in the middle of the forest, which shines day and night. It was at the lamp-post that Lucy Pevensie first met Mr. Tumnus.

The Lamp-post originated in the first few days of Narnia's creation, from a bar of iron which Queen Jadis had torn from a London lamppost and thrown at Aslan. Aslan at the time was creating the living things of Narnia by his song, which made the ground of Narnia magically fertile and gave birth to the animals and plants of the world. The iron bar fell to the ground and, under the influence of Aslan's song, gave birth to a new lamppost, which grew from a few feet high to a full sized streetlight in a few hours.

The Lamp-post's ability to burn continuously without fuel (London streetlamps run on gas) may be due to the fact that, although made of iron, it is an organic living thing, not a manufactured artifact as other streetlamps are. The Lamp-post in the movie (see picture) seems to have 'roots'.

- Ben didn't look in the eye when he said he had never seen the lamppost before. Jack asked if he was lying.. Kate said usually people lie when they can't look in some one's eyes but Jack does the opposite.

- Water= rebirth-baptism- reentry into island

- Desmond says whatever Hawking tells you.. ignore it (do the opposite like sayid told hurley about Ben)

- Think there is going to be a jack vs locke struggle. locke always trusted ben, jack is now trusting ben.. he was the man of science but it slowly becoming man of faith. everything jack did in the episode was a test of faith (putting the shoes on locke). Locke had to kill himself as a sacrifice to the island (faith). Once they do their good deed on the island they redeem themselves- and move onto the next level of spirituality, eternal youth (ana lucia, libby, chaly, boone, ecko, claire, shannon). Ben also told Jack he had to take a leap of faith. And Jack tells Locke the things he is doing are crazier than him.

-interesting way locke killed himself- by hanging.. to hang yourself you have to use your legs. can he walk off the island?

- jack had to get something that belonged to his father. he got the shoes. he mentioned white tennis shoes which Christian was wearing in the pilot episode

- was Ben praying for forgiveness of what he may do to Penny?

- Thomas the Apostle.. when Jesus wanted to return to Judea knowing he would be murdered there, the others said let us also go so that we might die with him. He refused to acknowledge Jesus' resurrection. (statue that was shown in front of the church last week). Thomas needed to touch Jesus' wounds to be convinced and of course he was. We are all convinced sooner or later. Jack is Thomas, Locke is Jesus. This also references many other Thomas' on the show:
In Greek, the name Thomas means "Twin." The name, or variations of it, appears frequently in Lost. Including Claire's babydaddy, there are: - Ben said he had a loose end that needed tying up. Does he know Jack will give Locke a pair of shoes? Jack made a big deal of tying the shoes on Locke.

- There was a blue shadow on jack's face- who was in the background? libby? i tried to re-watch and it looks like the chick from the movied Sideways.

- Loved the rabbit Ray a had.

- Ray aka Granddad said in response to Jack's ready to go- the sooner the better. Where i go is somewhat better than here. Where I go they can't find me. What would I do without my magic shows? And Jack says he's going away for a while.. somewhere better than here. Ray says "touche" Is Ray Jacob?

In the casting call, Ray was named "Hal", and described as "70s, Caucasian. Successful, handsome and charming rogue with a twinkle in his eye. A guy who can still fight the establishment and win."

- What happened to Aaron? I bet Claire came back as a ghost and told Kate not to take him to the island. So she gave him to Claire's mom.

- Who flies to guam? Guam is like the end of the earth (ps forests on guam are called boonies!) On ajira airway's site if you try to book a flight it automatically sends you to Guam and if you print the boarding pass it says "Landless". Also the symbol of ajira airways is a tiger- the years of the tiger are 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010. thinking they land in one of those years? but then we see Jin as a Dharma guy. the Purge happened in 1992 and Rousseau lands in 1988. I think he's going undercover as a Dharma to protect himself. maybe he's in1974? Also the Grateful Dead are playing in the van (Locke is the Grateful Dead).

- who was the airline guy- one of sayid's frieds from the past.

- Hurley was reading Y the Last Man by brian k vaughn which is about the only man to survive the mysterious simultaneous death of every male mammal on Earth. The virus kills everyone that has a Y chromosome including embryos, fertilized eggs, and even sperm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_The_Last_Man

- 78 seats 7 + 8 = 15. 23C was Jack's seat on the pilot episode .. tonight it was 8A.

- hurley was late for the plane.. and now ben was.

- Hurley did not want to go back to the island. and why did he have a guitar? I think Charlie told him to go back and bring one of his guitars with him. Charlie or Abbingdon.

- Sayid also did not want to go back to the island.. but was forced to as he was cuffed (like kate was to the marshal) to that woman (who looked like ana lucia's mom). We see next week this woman is talking to locke- perhaps he approached her? he was forced into it, maybe by the work he is doing for ben.

- Ben reading Ulysses (he has black eyes). Jack asked how can you read and he said my mother taught me. his mother died in childbirth! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)

- Lapidus was supposed to fly Oceanic Flight 815.

- Did Charles Widmore beat up Ben? Did he harm Penny? Ben said "you changed all the rules". Or did Desmond beat up Penny to protect her from him? Did he kill Penny and Desmond will go back to the island to seek revenge on him?

- also people claim to have seen Shannon's ghost with Jin in the dharma van. i watched it a few times frame by frame and didn't see anything.

- John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

ok. that's it for now.. enjoy!

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Episode 5- This Place Is Death

great episode. love jin. love how much time traveling helped his english and loved how happy sawyer was to see him. anyway i'm posting this blog which is more questions than theories. i'm sorry it's not the best blog. i'm jet lagged and have major foot pain. i'll write more tomorrow. xoxo

- nadine- looked like a young eloise. thought robert (rousseau's man) looked a bit like farraday.

- frenchie lacombe -Albert Lacombe (28 February 182712 December 1916), commonly known in Alberta simply as Father Lacombe, was a French-Canadian Roman Catholic missionary who lived among and evangelized the Cree and Blackfoot First Nations of western Canada. blackrock/big foot statue!

- this is what happens when you bring a woman here- they chase butterflies. why would they bring a pregnant woman then?

- dude that lost his arm from black smoke. dr candle lost his arm! and whidmore threatened to cut off juliette's hand. these are star wars references! there's a GREAT lost as star wars story here: http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=mb&cat=33026&tid=564413

- the black monster is a security system for the temple.

- did anyone notice jin had a red star on his shirt.. hope he's not marked!

- didn't kate have a music box?

- how does charlotte speaks korean- did she learn it from her time at the island- perhaps dr. candle?

- there are so many opps for people to kill ben but no one ever does!

-Charlotte remarks that she knows more about Carthage than Hannibal. Hannibal was a war general from Carthage from around 200 BC. He is considered on of the greatest military commander and tactician through out all of history.

- is charlotte annie or is annie charlotte's mom? who is the american man her mother married?

- was locke on the island on another time.. how does he know how everything always works and what the sacrifices are.

-wouldn't locke having jin's ring be more obvious that he's alive.. wouldn't they have buried him with his ring.

- charlotte's mumblings were from her childhood (chocolate- apollo bar, her dad).

- John has repeatedly stated that Boone was the sacrifice the island demanded, but in leaving the island and eventually dying to bring the others back John becomes a sacrifice to the island.

- Ben was surprised Desmond was looking for Farraday.

- the statue at the church was the statue of the resurrection (Christ/Locke)- jesus sacrificed himself for the people.

- charlotte translates don't come back- she's talking about ji yeon- sun & jin's daughter. coming back to the island is bad- this place is death and the more time you spend the more prone you are to the sickness. because you experience time shifts you are more destined to die because you spent the most time there. this is why claire also tells kate in a dream not to bring back aaron.

- is the island death? people who die don't really die (will we see chaly again?) they lied about everyone's death from the plane crash and you may have to die to get back on the island and once you leave the regular world people are dead. is ben dead.. he doesn't interact with anyone except for a few people.

ok. again more tomorrow.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Episode 4- The Little Prince

on my way home i walk into my elevator and press my floor 8. my neighbor walks in, presses 15. 815! YES. Time for Lost!

- did anyone notice that kate seemed as if she was trying to justify that clair was going to put aaron up for adoption.

- jack says again.. you are either with me or against me.

- charlotte's memory loss. Some are guessing that her problems might be unique to her as it's possible she was born on the Island. That was hinted at when she told Daniel that she was still looking for the place she was born. I've also seen some suggest that there is some significance to the fact that it's her mothers maiden name she cannot remember. perhaps something has changed enough that it has imprinted itself, or un-imprinted itself from her memory.

- miles says everything's back to normal, when it isn't.

- sayid out for 42 hours (number). 3 doses of horse tranquilizers. i tried to find out info on horse tranquilizers and humans but couldn't.

- ben is on our side.. only side he's on is his own.

- dr. clinical services? what was her name?

- who is the nurse? have we seen him before.

- they always ask 'when we are'.. not what year is it.. seems ok.

-charlotte says you don't have to baby me.. is she daniel's daughter?

- when kate is helping claire give birth she says the baby is all of ours.. obviously ben feels the same way!

- kate says sawyer is gone.. sawyer says what he saw was gone now. is this foreshadowing for sawyer's death? he is wearing a red shirt

- those getting bloody noses depends on duration of exposure to island.. these are the illnesses before the vaccination (desmond had to wear a hazmat suit but the losties were ok). since they are time travelling, they aren't exposed to the illness. also miles has no recollection of being born on the island (he's definitely pierre chang/dr. wickmund/halliwax/candle's son)

- ajira indian airline - ajira means island in hindu. check out the site. also, check out the date- first episode of lost!
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- saw this theory on a msg board and i agree! Anyone think that the whispers are our losties? They are walking thru the jungle...WHISPERING...travelling thru time...could be they be the whispers we've been hearing? If not them, OTHERS travelling thru time observing & whispering?

- 6 people on the canoe on the island, and the oceanic 6.

- danielle called someone alex on the boat.. assuming this is the father of her baby (alex). interesting that ben says aaron is not her son yet he takes alex as his own daughter.

- why do they keep going between hurley and hugo?

- everyone always looks like someone else - i noticed that claire's mom looked like penny! there's also juliette/jack's ex wife/penny/karen degroot, sun/pierre chang's babymama, young rousseau/kate, frogurt/young charles widmore/carl (alex's boyfriend), woman who answered the door at theresa's house/butcher and so on..

- where is sun's baby.. did someone take her and is sun doing what she has to do to get her back by duping kate? she said to kate last week that she would do whatever it took to keep aaron. or maybe ben is going to tell her he can prove that jin is alive to gain her trust and get her back to the island.

- producers have said that it all goes back to the pilot episode.. looks like jack is in the same suit as when they land.. i think they will time travel back and crash on the island (perhaps in ajira airlines) but that the pilot episode is when it starts all over again.. time loop!

- when rousseau meets jin in the future does she look at him like she's met him before. because clearly she has 16 years ago..

- The Little Prince- published in 1943 by a French Aviator Antoine Saint Exupery. On December 30, 1935 at 14:45 after a flight of 19 hours and 38 minutes Saint Exupéry, along with his navigator, André Prévot, crashed in the Libyan Sahara desert en route to Saigon. by day three of the crash, they experienced audio & visual hallucinations. The essence of the book is contained in the famous lines uttered by the fox to the Little Prince: "On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (One cannot see well except with the heart, the essential is invisible to the eyes). Other key thematic messages are articulated by the fox, such as: "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed" and "It is the time you have spent with your rose that makes your rose so important. "

Interleaved in the first nine chapters the narration's point of view changes from third person to first person. In the first eight days of the narrator being stranded in the desert, the Prince has been telling these stories to the narrator. The prince asks the narrator to draw a sheep (JACK SHEPPARD!)

Chapter 16 begins: "So then the seventh planet was the Earth". On the Earth, he starts out in the desert and meets a snake that claims to have the power to return him to his home planet (A clever way to say that he can kill people, thus "Sending anyone he wishes back to the land from whence he came.")

In 1997, Jean-Pierre Davidts wrote what could be considered a sequel to The Little Prince, entitled Le petit prince retrouvé[8] ('The Little Prince Returns'). In this version, the narrator is a shipwrecked man who encounters the Little Prince on a lone island; the Prince has returned to find help against a tiger who threatens his sheep.

For more on The Little Prince click here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince

- saw an interesting theory online that makes sense: My theory is that the people on the island are suffering from the temporal displacement, although not in the brain, in the body. Their body is moving through time, but to them, to their brains it is still 2004. See? Its reverse, as to what Desmond suffered when his body stayed in 2004 but his mind jumped to 1996. That is why the Constant was so important. The O6 is the leftbehinders Constant. It makes sense. The reason they have to go back, is because if they don't, everybody on the island will die. Isn't that what Locke said to Jack? Everybody will die if he didn't return. The O6 need to return to put their minds and bodies back in the same place.

JIIINNNNNN!!! welcome back. thank god you are alive. and we are glad you are hooked on phonics.

i just hope we don't see michael again.